September 26, 2010
Source: MSNBC.com/Today
Wire Service: AP
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39367509/ns/us_news-life/
Comic book fans will soon be getting their first glimpse at an unlikely new superhero — a Muslim boy in a wheelchair with superpowers.
The new superhero is the brainchild of a group of disabled young Americans and Syrians who were brought together last month in Damascus by the Open Hands Initiative, a non-profit organization founded by U.S. philanthropist and businessman Jay T. Snyder.